Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Groening, Matt

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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 any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Randy K. Milholland

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

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

11.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

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

Carl Jung

20.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

22.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

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

Michael Patrick King

29.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

30.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

32.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Jeph Jacques

35.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

36.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

37.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

42.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

43.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

45.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

46.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

47.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.