Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Proverb, Jewish

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

12.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

13.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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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 supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

17.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

20.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

23.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

24.

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

25.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

30.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

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

Steinfeld, Jake

33.

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

Bible

34.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

41.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

42.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

47.

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

48.

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

David Viscott

49.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare