Motivational Quotes

Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

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

Byron, Lord

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Shakespeare

10.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

11.

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

12.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

14.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

15.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

19.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

21.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

24.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

25.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

29.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

30.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

31.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

35.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

37.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

44.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

45.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Buber, Martin

50.

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