Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

10.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

11.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

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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

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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

15.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

16.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

18.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

19.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

20.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

22.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

25.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

26.

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

Proverb

27.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

29.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

30.

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

Southey, Robert

31.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

32.

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

Du Coeur

33.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

34.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

35.

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

36.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

41.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

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