Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

DiFranco, Ani

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

15.

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

16.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

17.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

18.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

23.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

24.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

26.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

27.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

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.

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

40.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

45.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

48.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.