Motivational Quotes

Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

10.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

12.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

14.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

15.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

19.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

20.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

21.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

23.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

24.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

26.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

27.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

30.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

32.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

34.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

35.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

36.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

37.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

38.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

40.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

41.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

42.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

43.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

44.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

47.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

48.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

49.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles