Motivational Quotes

Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Spanish

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Turner, Ted

10.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

11.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

13.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

15.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

17.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

18.

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.

19.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

21.

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

Diane Ackerman

22.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

23.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

24.

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

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

John of the Cross, St.

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

34.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

35.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

37.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

39.

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

Reik, Theodor

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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 never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

42.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

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

47.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De