Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Brookner, Anita

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

Scherer, Paul

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

15.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

16.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

19.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

22.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

25.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

26.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

27.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

30.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

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

33.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

34.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

35.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Disney, Walt

39.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

40.

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

Jennifer Aniston

41.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.