Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Du Coeur

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

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

13.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

15.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

16.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

19.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

20.

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

21.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

22.

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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

24.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

32.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

33.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

35.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

40.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Plato

42.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

43.

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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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