Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Laing, R. D.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

13.

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

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.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Levine, Stephen

21.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

22.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

25.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

27.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

28.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

31.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

41.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

43.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

49.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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