Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ice T

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

DiFranco, Ani

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Eliot, T. S.

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

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

20.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

21.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

22.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

23.

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

Julie Morgenstern

24.

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

25.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

26.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

27.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

28.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

29.

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

Reik, Theodor

30.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

Anderson, Margaret

33.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

34.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

35.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

38.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

39.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

40.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

44.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

46.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

50.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas