Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Disney, Walt

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

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

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

17.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

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.

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

27.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

30.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

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.

32.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

37.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

38.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

40.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

41.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

42.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

43.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

44.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

45.

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

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

48.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

49.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

50.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann