Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

William Shakespeare

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

10.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

11.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

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

Victor Hugo

16.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

17.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

18.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

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

Crawford, Joan

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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

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

Sand, George

22.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

29.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

30.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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 the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Federman, Irwin

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Seneca