Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Harrigan, John

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

10.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

11.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

13.

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

14.

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

Eliot, T. S.

15.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

16.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

24.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

25.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

29.

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

Tomlin, Lily

30.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

34.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

38.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

39.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

40.

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

Davies, Robertson

41.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

42.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

43.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

48.

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

49.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

50.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas