Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Margaret Cho

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Brooke, Rupert

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

16.

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

Laing, R. D.

17.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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

25.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

26.

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

Auerbach, Red

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

31.

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

32.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

33.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

34.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

35.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

36.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

37.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

38.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

43.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

45.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

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

47.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

49.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

50.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin