Motivational Quotes

Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Love

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

14.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

16.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

17.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

18.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

22.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

23.

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

Julie Morgenstern

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

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.

32.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

34.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

35.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

38.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

39.

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

Rossetti, Christina

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

43.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

45.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

46.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

47.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

48.

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

Croft, Roy

49.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

50.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.