Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Disney, Walt

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

William Shakespeare

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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.

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.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

14.

'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

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

21.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

22.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

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

Jean Anouilh

26.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

27.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

28.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

38.

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

Davies, Robertson

39.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

43.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?