Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Tracy, Brian

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

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

11.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

12.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

14.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

21.

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

22.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

23.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

25.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

26.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

33.

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

34.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

35.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

36.

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

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

39.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

41.

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

Bailey, Pearl

44.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

48.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas