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

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

11.

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

Smith, Sydney

12.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

13.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

15.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

16.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

17.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

18.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

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

Dryden, John

20.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

21.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

22.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

23.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

25.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

34.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

35.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

36.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

38.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

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

42.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

43.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

44.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Mother Teresa

47.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen