Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, while you are able to love.

- Frieligrath, A.

Best Quotes about Love

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

10.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

15.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

17.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

18.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

19.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

21.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

22.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

28.

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

Behn, Aphra

29.

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

30.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

31.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

32.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

33.

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

34.

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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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

40.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

41.

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

Pavese, Cesare

42.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

43.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

44.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.