Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Best Quotes about Love

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

11.

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

Layton, Irving

12.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

13.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

18.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

19.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

20.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

25.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bible

28.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

30.

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

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ovid

38.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

39.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

45.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

46.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

48.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

Van Gogh, Vincent