Motivational Quotes

Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

13.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

14.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

18.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

19.

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

Bourget, Paul

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

24.

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

DiFranco, Ani

25.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

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

36.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

40.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

49.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.