Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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

13.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

14.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

15.

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

Proverb, Irish

16.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

18.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

21.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

23.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

24.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

26.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Proverb

31.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

38.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

39.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

43.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

44.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

45.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

46.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

49.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman