Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Heinlein, Robert

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

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

Ovid

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

10.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

13.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

14.

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

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

DiFranco, Ani

18.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

19.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

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

Erica Jong

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

25.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

32.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

33.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

34.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

35.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

37.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

40.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.