Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

11.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

14.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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

18.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

19.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

20.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

22.

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

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

27.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

29.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

31.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Federman, Irwin

34.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

35.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

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

37.

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

Vicious, Sid

38.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

43.

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

James, William

44.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

45.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

48.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

49.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

50.

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

Mansfield, Katherine