Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

10.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

11.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

12.

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

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

15.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

18.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

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

Burton, Robert

25.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

26.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

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

29.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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

Carmichael, Amy

31.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

32.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

33.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

35.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

36.

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

DiFranco, Ani

37.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

38.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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

40.

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

Sand, George

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

45.

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

46.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

49.

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

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John