Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

15.

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

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

18.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

22.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

23.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

24.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

25.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Auerbach, Red

27.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

28.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

31.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

32.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

35.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

36.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

37.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

38.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

39.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

40.

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

48.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

50.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.