Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

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

Buber, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

14.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

15.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

18.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

21.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

22.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

23.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

24.

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

Chambless, David

25.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

26.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

27.

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

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Scherer, Paul

31.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

32.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

33.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

39.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Brown, Les

44.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

46.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

47.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hoffman, Lisa