Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

10.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

15.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

16.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

17.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

21.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

23.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

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

National Lampoon

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

31.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

32.

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

33.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

37.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

39.

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

Fromm, Erich

40.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

41.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

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

43.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

44.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

45.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham