Motivational Quotes

Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

- Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disney, Walt

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

11.

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

12.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

14.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

15.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.

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

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

19.

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

20.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

21.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

23.

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

Ovid

24.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

28.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

32.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

33.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

44.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

46.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

47.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

48.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

49.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates