Motivational Quotes

Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

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

Carl Jung

13.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

26.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

29.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

32.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

33.

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

Scherer, Paul

34.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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.

36.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

40.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

41.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

42.

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

Ovid

43.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese