Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Mooneyham, Stan

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

10.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

11.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

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

14.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

Seneca

21.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

22.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

26.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

37.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

39.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

40.

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

Williams, William Carlos

41.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

42.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

43.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

44.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

46.

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

47.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil