Motivational Quotes

Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

- Flaherty, Edward

Best Quotes about Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

10.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

11.

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

12.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

13.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

15.

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

DiFranco, Ani

16.

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

17.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

19.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

20.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

21.

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

Duffy, Maureen

22.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

23.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

24.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Bette Davis

27.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

28.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

29.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

30.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

32.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

33.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

34.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

39.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

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

42.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

43.

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

44.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

45.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

49.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

50.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick