Motivational Quotes

Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

11.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

17.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

22.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

23.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

30.

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

Anderson, Margaret

31.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

32.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

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

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

35.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

36.

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

James, William

37.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

39.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

40.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

41.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

42.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

43.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

45.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

46.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

47.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

49.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare