Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

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

Toni Morrison

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

15.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

16.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

17.

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

18.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

19.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

21.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

24.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

26.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

27.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

32.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

34.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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

36.

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

37.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

38.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

39.

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.

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

43.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

44.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

45.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

47.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.