Motivational Quotes

Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

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

Law, William

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dryden, John

11.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

13.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

28.

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

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

37.

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

Voltaire

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

42.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

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

Sand, George

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh