Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Lennon, John

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

11.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

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

14.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

15.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

20.

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

Chambless, David

21.

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

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

25.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

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

29.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

30.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

40.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

43.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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