Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

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

Rossetti, Christina

15.

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

DiFranco, Ani

16.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Anderson, Margaret

20.

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

21.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

22.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

23.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

24.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

25.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Carl Jung

27.

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

28.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

36.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

39.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

41.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

43.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

44.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

45.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

46.

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

Bible

47.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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