Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

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.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

10.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

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

12.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

16.

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

Anderson, Margaret

17.

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

Groening, Matt

18.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

19.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

20.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

22.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

23.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

24.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

25.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

26.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

27.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

28.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

29.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

30.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

38.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

39.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

43.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.