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

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Margaret Cho

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Tomlin, Lily

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

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.

12.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

14.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

15.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

16.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

17.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

18.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

19.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

20.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

23.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

27.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

28.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

32.

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

33.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

35.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

40.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

41.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

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

43.

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

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

46.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

47.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

48.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

49.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.