Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

12.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

13.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

24.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

27.

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

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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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

30.

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

31.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

32.

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

33.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

34.

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

Murdoch, Iris

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Williams, William Carlos

38.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

41.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon