Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

10.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

11.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

12.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

18.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Sand, George

20.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ovid

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

33.

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

34.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

38.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

40.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

Proverb, Irish

42.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Behn, Aphra

45.

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

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah