Motivational Quotes

Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

10.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

11.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

12.

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

13.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

23.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

DiFranco, Ani

28.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

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

Connolly, Cyril

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

34.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

35.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

36.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

37.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

38.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

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

Erica Jong

41.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

42.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

47.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

48.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

49.

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

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel