Motivational Quotes

Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

12.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

13.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

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

15.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

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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.

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

22.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

24.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

25.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

26.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

32.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.