Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

10.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

14.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Brooke, Rupert

18.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

29.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

34.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Proverb

36.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

37.

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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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Ovid

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.