Motivational Quotes

Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Anderson, Margaret

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

13.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

15.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

18.

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.

19.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Michael Patrick King

27.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

36.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

38.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Martineau, Harriet

41.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

45.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

46.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

47.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

48.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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