Motivational Quotes

Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Murdoch, Iris

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

William Shakespeare

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

10.

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

Rossetti, Christina

11.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

DiFranco, Ani

14.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

16.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

20.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

21.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

25.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

26.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

28.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

29.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

30.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

31.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

34.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

35.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

41.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

43.

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

44.

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

Leunig, Michael

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Verse, A Haiku