Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

10.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

15.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

16.

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.

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

21.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

22.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

25.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

26.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

30.

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

Ice T

31.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

32.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

33.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

34.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

35.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

37.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

38.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

39.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

45.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

46.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

49.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

50.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku