Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Plato

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

Bailey, Pearl

13.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

14.

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

15.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

16.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

17.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

18.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

19.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

23.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

24.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Rossetti, Christina

27.

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

Meredith, George

28.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

29.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

30.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

31.

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

Saltus, Edgar

32.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

34.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

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

36.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

38.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

39.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

42.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

44.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

46.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]