Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

William Shakespeare

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Jane Austen

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

47.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare