Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Groening, Matt

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

12.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

17.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

19.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

20.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

21.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

22.

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

23.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

24.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

25.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

26.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

27.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

34.

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

Harrigan, John

35.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

36.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

40.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

41.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

42.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

46.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

Martineau, Harriet

48.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

49.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De