Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

10.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

13.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

16.

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

Bible

17.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

21.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

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

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

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

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

28.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

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

Nathan, George Jean

30.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

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

Real Live Preacher

32.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

33.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

34.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

35.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

36.

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.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

40.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

41.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

48.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.