Motivational Quotes

Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disney, Walt

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Wilkerson, David

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

13.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

14.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

16.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

19.

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

20.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

21.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

25.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

26.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

27.

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

28.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

36.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

37.

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

38.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

39.

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

40.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

41.

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

Murdoch, Iris

42.

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

43.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

44.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

45.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

46.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

47.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

48.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

50.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.