Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

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

Orwell, George

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

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

15.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

18.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

19.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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

21.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

22.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

23.

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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

26.

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

John of the Cross, St.

27.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

28.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

29.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

31.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

32.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

33.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

34.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

35.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

38.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

39.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

40.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

45.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

46.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

47.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

48.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

49.

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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne