Motivational Quotes

Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

- Leach, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

12.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

14.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Victor Hugo

17.

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

18.

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

19.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

22.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

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

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

28.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

29.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Real Live Preacher

31.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

32.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

33.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

34.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

35.

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

Disney, Walt

36.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Michael Patrick King

40.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

43.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

44.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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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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

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

Groening, Matt

49.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

50.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De