Motivational Quotes

Love

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Scott Westerfeld

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Hugo, Victor

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Brookner, Anita

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Sand, George

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Scherer, Paul

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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