Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

10.

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

11.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

13.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

15.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

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

Calvino, Italo

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

21.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

23.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

24.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

34.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

35.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Ovid

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

40.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges