Motivational Quotes

Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

J. K. Rowling

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

Brown, David

12.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

13.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

15.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

20.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

21.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

26.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

27.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

29.

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

Tracy, Brian

30.

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

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

32.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

33.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.