Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mansfield, Katherine

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

14.

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

15.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

16.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

28.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Paolo Giordano

31.

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

32.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

33.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

36.

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

Orwell, George

37.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

38.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

39.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

40.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

45.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

48.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

49.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra