Motivational Quotes

Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Lawrence, D. H.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

10.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

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

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

15.

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

Disney, Walt

16.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

17.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

22.

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

Barry, Lynda

23.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

27.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

28.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

29.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

30.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

31.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

32.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

33.

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

34.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

35.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

38.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

39.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

41.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

42.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

45.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

47.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

48.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

49.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

50.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard