Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Jerome, St.

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

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

10.

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

Du Coeur

11.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

12.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

13.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

16.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

17.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

18.

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

19.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

20.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

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

Brookner, Anita

22.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

23.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Groening, Matt

26.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

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

30.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

31.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

32.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Voltaire

36.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

37.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

40.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

44.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

47.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

48.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

49.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick