Motivational Quotes

Love

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

21.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

22.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

23.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Orwell, George

27.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

30.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

31.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

33.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

36.

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

37.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

38.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

39.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

41.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

42.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

43.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

45.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

46.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle