Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

15.

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

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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

17.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

18.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

19.

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

Du Coeur

20.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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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

28.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

37.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

40.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De