Motivational Quotes

Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

10.

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

Vicious, Sid

11.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

12.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

13.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

14.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

17.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

18.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

22.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

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

25.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

26.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

27.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

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

Turner, Ted

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

34.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Margaret Cho

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

40.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

45.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.