Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

- Satir, Virginia

Best Quotes about Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Buber, Martin

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

10.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

11.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

18.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

19.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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

Reagan, Ronald

22.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

24.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

25.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Davies, Robertson

28.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

30.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

37.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.