Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Alan Watts

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

10.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

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

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

26.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

29.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

42.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

47.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

48.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

49.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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