Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

- Shan, Merle

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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 an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

10.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

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

Carroll, Pat

14.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

15.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

16.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

20.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

Sophocles

28.

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

Groening, Matt

29.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

30.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

33.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

34.

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

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

37.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

41.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

42.

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

43.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

44.

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

45.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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