Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

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

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

13.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

14.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Buber, Martin

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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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

21.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

22.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Law, William

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

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

29.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

30.

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

John Sheffield

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

35.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

36.

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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

38.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

39.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Bible

41.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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

48.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street