Motivational Quotes

Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

- Monica Fairview

Best Quotes about Love

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

Vicious, Sid

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

William Shakespeare

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

16.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

17.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

18.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

21.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

25.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

27.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

28.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

29.

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

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

31.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

36.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

39.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

42.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

43.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Pythagoras

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

47.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

49.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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