Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Peguy, Charles

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

Euripides

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

10.

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

11.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

19.

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

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

22.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

23.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

24.

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

25.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

26.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

29.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

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

35.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

37.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

39.

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

Dryden, John

40.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

42.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

43.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.