Motivational Quotes

Love

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

Bridges, Robert

11.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

13.

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

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

18.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

21.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

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.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

26.

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

27.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

28.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

29.

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

30.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

31.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

32.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

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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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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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

49.

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

National Lampoon

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen