Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hugo, Victor

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Connolly, Cyril

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

11.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

12.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

14.

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

15.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

16.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

19.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

21.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

22.

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

Orwell, George

23.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

24.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

26.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Federman, Irwin

28.

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

29.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

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

32.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

33.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

36.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

37.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

38.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

39.

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

Disney, Walt

40.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

41.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

42.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

43.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

44.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

45.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

46.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

48.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

49.

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

Charles M. Schulz

50.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von