Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Crawshaw, Richard

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

10.

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

11.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

12.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

13.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

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

Verse, A Haiku

16.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

17.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

Margaret Cho

19.

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

Traherne, Thomas

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

22.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

25.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

32.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

34.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

35.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

40.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

41.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

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

Proust, Marcel

43.

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

44.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

45.

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

46.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

47.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

48.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

49.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

50.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris