Motivational Quotes

Love

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

- National Lampoon

Best Quotes about Love

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Anouilh, Jean

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

12.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

13.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

14.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

15.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

18.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

20.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Charles M. Schulz

23.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

24.

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

25.

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

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

Brown, Les

27.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

28.

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

29.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

30.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

32.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

35.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

37.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

40.

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

Levine, Stephen

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Hazlitt, William

45.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

46.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

48.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

49.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles