Motivational Quotes

Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

12.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

16.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

17.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

Martineau, Harriet

19.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

20.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

21.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

23.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

24.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

26.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

27.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

28.

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

29.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

DiFranco, Ani

31.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

32.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

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

36.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

37.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

39.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Euripides

42.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

43.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

45.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

46.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

47.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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

49.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

50.

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

Buscaglia, Leo