Motivational Quotes

Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

- Leach, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bible

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Dane, Frank

12.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

J. K. Rowling

28.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

34.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

40.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith