Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

11.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

12.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

15.

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

Jane Austen

16.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

19.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

20.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

22.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Davies, Robertson

27.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

29.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

30.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

31.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

35.

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

36.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

41.

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

Dryden, John

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

44.

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

Chambless, David

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

47.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red