Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

10.

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

Margaret Cho

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

13.

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

Barry, Lynda

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Thurber, James

16.

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

17.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Croft, Roy

19.

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

20.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

21.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

22.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

23.

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

Updike, John

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

25.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

Jeanne Moreau

28.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

29.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

31.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

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

Connolly, Cyril

33.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

34.

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

35.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

38.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

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.

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

42.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

46.

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

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.