Motivational Quotes

Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Ovid

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

10.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

Elizabeth Aston

14.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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.

17.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

18.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

19.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

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

21.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

22.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

25.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

26.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

28.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

29.

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

30.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

32.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

33.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

34.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

35.

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

Behn, Aphra

36.

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

Carl Jung

37.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

38.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

41.

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

Law, William

42.

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

43.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

44.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

45.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

49.

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

50.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales