Motivational Quotes

Love

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Rowland, Helen

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Carl Jung

15.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

16.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Euripides

18.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

19.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

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

Davies, Robertson

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

24.

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

25.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

28.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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.

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

Rossetti, Christina

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

38.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

40.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

41.

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

42.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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