Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Byron, Lord

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

12.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

13.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

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

Jeph Jacques

16.

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

17.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

19.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

21.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

25.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

27.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

31.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

32.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

33.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

34.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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.

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

William Penn

39.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

41.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

43.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

45.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

46.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.