Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

15.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

21.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

22.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Davies, Robertson

25.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bourget, Paul

27.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

28.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Bridges, Robert

30.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

34.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

37.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

38.

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

39.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

41.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

42.

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

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae