Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Jean Anouilh

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

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

Pythagoras

11.

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

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

14.

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

15.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

16.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

17.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

20.

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

Hugo, Victor

21.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

22.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Anderson, Margaret

25.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

27.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

30.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

31.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Nathan, George Jean

33.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

43.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

44.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

45.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George