Motivational Quotes

Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

10.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

15.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

22.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

25.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

28.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

31.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

32.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Leunig, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Fromm, Erich

43.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Mencken, H. L.