Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

14.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

16.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

20.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

29.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

30.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

31.

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

32.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

34.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

35.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

36.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

38.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

40.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

48.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

49.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb