Motivational Quotes

Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

10.

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

11.

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

Brooke, Rupert

12.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

13.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

15.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

16.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

17.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

21.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

23.

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.

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

26.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

27.

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

28.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

29.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

36.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

38.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

Alan Watts

41.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

42.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

43.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

44.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

45.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

46.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

47.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

49.

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

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae