Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

- More, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

10.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

13.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

16.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

17.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

20.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

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

23.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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.

28.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

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

Mcdonald, George

31.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

32.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

33.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

34.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

35.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

36.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

38.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

39.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

40.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

41.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

44.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

47.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

48.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

50.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare