Motivational Quotes

Love

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

- Ashley, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

11.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

13.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

14.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

17.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

18.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

20.

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

Mcdonald, George

21.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

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

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

26.

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

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

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.

30.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

32.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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

34.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

37.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

45.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

46.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

47.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

49.

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