Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

13.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

14.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

15.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Donne, John

20.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

21.

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

22.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

23.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

24.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

27.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

28.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

30.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

31.

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.

32.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

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

J. K. Rowling

35.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

40.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

41.

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

42.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

43.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

44.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

45.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

46.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

47.

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

48.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

49.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

50.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John