Motivational Quotes

Love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

- Hugh Elliott

Best Quotes about Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

10.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

11.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

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

16.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

Julie Morgenstern

19.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

20.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

21.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

22.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

24.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

25.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Calvino, Italo

29.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

30.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

31.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

Sand, George

35.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

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.

39.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

43.

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

44.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Strindberg, J. August

50.

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