Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Toni Morrison

10.

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

11.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

12.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

13.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

17.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

26.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

27.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

28.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

30.

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

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

33.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

34.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

37.

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

38.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

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

Disney, Walt

40.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

43.

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

Heinlein, Robert

44.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

46.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jean Anouilh

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril