Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Shakespeare, William

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

13.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

16.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

17.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

18.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

27.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

30.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

31.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

32.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

33.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

34.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

35.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

36.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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.

40.

'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

41.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

42.

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

Bible

43.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

44.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

45.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

46.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

47.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

49.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

50.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna