Motivational Quotes

Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

11.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

14.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

15.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

16.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

19.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

22.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

23.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

24.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

25.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

28.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

31.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

32.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

34.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

36.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

38.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

39.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

42.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

43.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

45.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

48.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

49.

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

Charles M. Schulz

50.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.