Motivational Quotes

Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Behn, Aphra

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

11.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

12.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

15.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

21.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

22.

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

Donne, John

23.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

27.

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

Anderson, Margaret

28.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

29.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

31.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

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

Du Coeur

35.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

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

Chambless, David

38.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

39.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

40.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

42.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

43.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

44.

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

45.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

49.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne