Motivational Quotes

Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Alan Watts

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Saltus, Edgar

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

Lawrence, D. H.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

13.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

14.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

15.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

16.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

17.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

18.

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

22.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

23.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

32.

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

Heinlein, Robert

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

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

Harrigan, John

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

Brown, David

37.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

39.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

40.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

41.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

42.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

43.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

John Sheffield

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

50.

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