Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

10.

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

Bible

11.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

Carl Jung

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

19.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

20.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

21.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

22.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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.

25.

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

Bible

26.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Croft, Roy

28.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

29.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

32.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

35.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

36.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

37.

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

38.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

39.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

40.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

43.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

44.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

45.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

46.

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

Tomlin, Lily

47.

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

48.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz