Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

- Hirschfield, Mangnu

Best Quotes about Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

10.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

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

Layton, Irving

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

17.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

19.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

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

Proverb, Japanese

21.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

25.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

26.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

28.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

29.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

30.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

31.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

33.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

34.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

35.

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

36.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

40.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

Duras, Marguerite

42.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

44.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

45.

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

Duffy, Maureen

46.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

47.

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

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.