Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Du Coeur

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blanton, Smiley

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

10.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

12.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

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

Chambless, David

17.

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

Jennifer Aniston

18.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

20.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

22.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

29.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

30.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

31.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

35.

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

Bible

36.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

37.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

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

Bailey, Pearl

40.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Donne, John

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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

44.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

46.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

47.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.