Motivational Quotes

Love

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disney, Walt

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

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

Davies, Robertson

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

11.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

12.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

13.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

14.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

15.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

16.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

17.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

21.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

22.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

28.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

29.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

30.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

31.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

32.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

33.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

34.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

37.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

39.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

40.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

41.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

42.

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.

43.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

44.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

48.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

50.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street