Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hoffman, Lisa

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

10.

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

11.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chanel, Coco

16.

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

Irving, Washington

17.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

20.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

21.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

27.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

28.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

31.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

32.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

33.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

36.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

37.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

39.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

41.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

43.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

44.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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

46.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

47.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

49.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

50.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld