Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

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

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

10.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

11.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

12.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

13.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

14.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

16.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

18.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

19.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

22.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

23.

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

Reagan, Ronald

24.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

25.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Reik, Theodor

27.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

28.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

30.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

40.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

41.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

42.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

50.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher