Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Du Coeur

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Pavese, Cesare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

16.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

17.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

18.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

19.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

Martineau, Harriet

21.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

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

Bible

24.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

25.

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

Donne, John

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

Hoffman, Lisa

27.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

29.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

30.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

31.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

32.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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'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

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.