Motivational Quotes

Love

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

12.

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

Hertl, Nick

13.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

17.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

18.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

21.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

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

Reik, Theodor

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

33.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

42.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

44.

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

Connolly, Cyril

45.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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