Motivational Quotes

Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Proverb, Jewish

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Du Coeur

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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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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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Proverb, Japanese

31.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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.

Paolo Giordano

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl 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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.