Motivational Quotes

Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

- Vicious, Sid

Best Quotes about Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rossetti, Christina

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

12.

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

Brown, David

13.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

22.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

24.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

25.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

26.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

27.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

29.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

33.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

34.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

36.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

38.

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

39.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

40.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

41.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

43.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

44.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

47.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.