Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Love

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

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Hugo, Victor

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

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crawford, Joan

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

15.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

Jeanne Moreau

19.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Williams, William Carlos

25.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

26.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

28.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

29.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

32.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

33.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

34.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

36.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

37.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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.

41.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

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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.

45.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

46.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

48.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

50.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.