Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

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

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

10.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

11.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

18.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

20.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

21.

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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

23.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

25.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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

29.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

30.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Eliot, T. S.

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

37.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

38.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Croft, Roy

41.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

42.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

45.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

48.

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

Jeph Jacques

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.