Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Love

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

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Blanton, Smiley

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

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

11.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

13.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

14.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

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

16.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

19.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

24.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

26.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

27.

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

Brown, David

28.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

29.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

31.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

33.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

35.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

36.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

42.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

43.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

44.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

45.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

46.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

47.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

48.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

50.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb