Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

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

Vicious, Sid

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bible

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

15.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

18.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

19.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

20.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

21.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

23.

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.

24.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

25.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

26.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

27.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

28.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

29.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

30.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

31.

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

32.

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

Davis, Bette

33.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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.

37.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

39.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

40.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

41.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

42.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

43.

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

Ackerman, Diane

44.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

45.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Jerome, St.

49.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawshaw, Richard