Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jennifer Aniston

Best Quotes about Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Calvino, Italo

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

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

11.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

12.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

13.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

18.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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.

29.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

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

Jane Austen

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

34.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

35.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

37.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath