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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Paolo Giordano

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Reik, Theodor

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

12.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

13.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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 is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

39.

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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Bible

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma