Motivational Quotes

Love

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fromm, Erich

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Reik, Theodor

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

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

15.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

16.

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

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

Scherer, Paul

18.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

20.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

27.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

30.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

31.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

33.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

35.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

36.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

37.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

38.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

39.

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

Seneca

40.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

41.

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

42.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

43.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

47.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

48.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung