Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Victor Hugo

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

11.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12.

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

Leunig, Michael

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

20.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

21.

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

Jerome, St.

22.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

24.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

25.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

26.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

27.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

28.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

29.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Calvino, Italo

32.

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

James, William

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

36.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

37.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

38.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

39.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

40.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

41.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

43.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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