Motivational Quotes

Love

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

10.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

13.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

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

19.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

21.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

22.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

23.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

24.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

25.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

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

27.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

28.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

29.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

34.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

35.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

36.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

38.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

39.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

40.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

41.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

44.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

National Lampoon

49.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya