Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Orwell, George

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

10.

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

11.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

18.

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

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

Jean Anouilh

20.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

21.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

23.

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

24.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Murdoch, Iris

28.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

29.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

30.

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

31.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

32.

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.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

37.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

44.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

45.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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

47.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

49.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.