Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

- Macarius of Egypt, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

10.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

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

12.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

13.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

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

15.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

16.

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

Paolo Giordano

17.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

20.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

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

22.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

23.

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

24.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

27.

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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Alan Watts

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

42.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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

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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

48.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

50.

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.