Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Byron, Lord

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Jennifer Aniston

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Martineau, Harriet

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul