Motivational Quotes

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

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Bourget, Paul

10.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

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

12.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

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

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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.

Davis, Bette

18.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

19.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

20.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

21.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

24.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

25.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

28.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

29.

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

30.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

32.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

34.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

35.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

36.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Scott Westerfeld

41.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

46.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

47.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

49.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine