Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

David Viscott

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

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

Paolo Giordano

13.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

14.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

15.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

16.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

18.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

21.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

23.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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

28.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

34.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

35.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

37.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

38.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

40.

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

41.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

44.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

45.

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

Jeanne Moreau

46.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

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