Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Parker, Dorothy

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rowland, Helen

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Proverb

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Barry, Lynda

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

James, William

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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

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

Brookner, Anita

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.