Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Heinlein, Robert

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Steinfeld, Jake

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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

Hay, Louise L.

11.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

12.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

16.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

21.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

22.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

23.

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

Aristotle

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

29.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

30.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

31.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

32.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

35.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

37.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

38.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

39.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

43.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Levine, Stephen

45.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

46.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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.

48.

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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld