Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

J. K. Rowling

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

10.

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

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

14.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

16.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

17.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

23.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

29.

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

30.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.