Motivational Quotes

Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Byron, Lord

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Behn, Aphra

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

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

Delp, Alexis

12.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

13.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

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

20.

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

Saltus, Edgar

21.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

25.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

26.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

30.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

32.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

36.

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

Reagan, Ronald

37.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

38.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

40.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

42.

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

43.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Disney, Walt

46.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

48.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

49.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin