Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Law, William

11.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

12.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

13.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

15.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

21.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

22.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

Brooke, Rupert

26.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

29.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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

31.

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

32.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

33.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

38.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

39.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

41.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

42.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

43.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

44.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

46.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

47.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

48.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

49.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

50.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.