Motivational Quotes

Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

- Russell, Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

10.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

11.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

14.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

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

Murdoch, Iris

22.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

26.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

27.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

34.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

36.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

38.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

39.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

40.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

41.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

43.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

44.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

45.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

46.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

47.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.