Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

11.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

13.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

18.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

19.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

20.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

22.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

24.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

25.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

26.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Layton, Irving

28.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

29.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

30.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

31.

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

32.

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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

35.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

36.

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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

40.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

41.

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

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

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

Orwell, George

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.