Motivational Quotes

Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

- Algren, Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ice T

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

10.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Updike, John

12.

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

Mcdonald, George

13.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

14.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

15.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

18.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

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

21.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

22.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

27.

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

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

29.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

31.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

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

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

35.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

36.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

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

DiFranco, Ani

38.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

40.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

41.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Barry, Lynda

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

44.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

45.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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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