Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Euripides

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

16.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

17.

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

18.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

19.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

20.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

21.

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

22.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

24.

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

25.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

26.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

27.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

28.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

30.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

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.

32.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

33.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

34.

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

John Sheffield

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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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

41.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

43.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.