Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Willis, Bruce

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dane, Frank

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

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

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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

11.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

12.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

13.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

14.

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

15.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

16.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

19.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

Brookner, Anita

22.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

24.

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

Calvino, Italo

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

29.

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

Charles M. Schulz

30.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

32.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

38.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

41.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

42.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

43.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck