Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

10.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

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

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

16.

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

17.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

19.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

20.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

22.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

25.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

26.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

Du Coeur

32.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

33.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

34.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

35.

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

36.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

37.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

39.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

41.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

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

James, William

43.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

45.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

47.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

48.

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

49.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich