Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

20.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

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

Desai, Yogi

30.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

32.

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.

33.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.