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

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

Proverb, French

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

11.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

12.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Peter Ustinov

16.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

17.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

19.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

20.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Youngman, Henny

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

31.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

34.

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

35.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

36.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

37.

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

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

40.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

41.

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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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

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

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

47.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David