Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Anouilh, Jean

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

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.

12.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

17.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

18.

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

James, William

19.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

26.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

27.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Peguy, Charles

30.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

31.

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

Desai, Yogi

32.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

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

Auerbach, Red

34.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

36.

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

37.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

45.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.