Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- DiFranco, Ani

Best Quotes about Love

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

Swift, Jonathan

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

11.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

12.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

13.

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

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

16.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

22.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

23.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

24.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

28.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

33.

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

34.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

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

36.

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

Diane Ackerman

37.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

38.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

39.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Verse, A Haiku

41.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

43.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

45.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

46.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

Groening, Matt

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.