Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

12.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

13.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

14.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

15.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

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

Mcdonald, George

18.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

20.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

21.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

24.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

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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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

28.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

29.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

30.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

31.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

35.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

36.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

40.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

42.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

45.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

46.

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

Reik, Theodor

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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

48.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.