Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

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

J. K. Rowling

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

10.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

13.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

20.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

21.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

23.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

24.

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

25.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

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

27.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

31.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

34.

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

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

42.

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

Jeph Jacques

43.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

47.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

48.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Disney, Walt

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson