Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Disney, Walt

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

10.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

11.

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

DiFranco, Ani

12.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

14.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

17.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

18.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

19.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

20.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

21.

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

22.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

25.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

28.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

29.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

31.

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

32.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Peguy, Charles

34.

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

35.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Plato

37.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

38.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

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

40.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

41.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

44.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

47.

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

48.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert