Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

10.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

16.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

17.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

19.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

22.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

26.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

27.

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

Bette Davis

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

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

Peter Ustinov

31.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Duras, Marguerite

34.

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

35.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

36.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

38.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

39.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

41.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

47.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

49.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.