Motivational Quotes

Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scott Westerfeld

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Fromm, Erich

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

W. Somerset Maugham

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

10.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

13.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

15.

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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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

21.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

23.

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

Ice T

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

28.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Carroll, Pat

34.

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

35.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

39.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

Alan Watts

41.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

42.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

45.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Steinfeld, Jake

49.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman