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

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Disney, Walt

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Turner, Ted

16.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

17.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

18.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

21.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

25.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

26.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

27.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

28.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

30.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

34.

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

35.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

36.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

37.

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

Capote, Truman

38.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

39.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

40.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

42.

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.

43.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

46.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

47.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

48.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

49.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

50.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome