Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Shakespeare

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

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

12.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Dane, Frank

16.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

Disney, Walt

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

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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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

24.

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.

25.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

30.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

38.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

45.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

46.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

47.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar