Motivational Quotes

Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

10.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

11.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

12.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

13.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

15.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

17.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

18.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

21.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

24.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

29.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

38.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

39.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Carroll, Pat

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

47.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

48.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

50.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo