Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Les

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

10.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

11.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

12.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

13.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

16.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

18.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

22.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

25.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

28.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

29.

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

30.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

31.

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

Brown, David

32.

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

37.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

40.

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.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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

44.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.