Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

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

Levine, Stephen

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

Chanel, Coco

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

11.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

13.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

16.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

17.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

18.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

20.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

21.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

23.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

25.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

30.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

31.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

33.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

34.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

36.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

37.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

39.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

Dane, Frank

41.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

44.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

47.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts