Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Rowland, Helen

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

14.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

15.

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

Peguy, Charles

16.

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

Brooke, Rupert

17.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

19.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

20.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

21.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

24.

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

25.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

26.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Carroll, Pat

28.

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

29.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

32.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

33.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

35.

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

Disney, Walt

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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

37.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

38.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

39.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

40.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn