Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

11.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Paolo Giordano

15.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

17.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

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

Law, William

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

24.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

28.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

29.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

35.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

39.

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.

40.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

41.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

42.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

43.

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

44.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

45.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

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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

49.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

50.

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

Anouilh, Jean