Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Anouilh, Jean

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Orwell, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

10.

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

11.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

13.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Jean Anouilh

16.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

18.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

19.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Real Live Preacher

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

23.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

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

Tomlin, Lily

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

29.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

30.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

31.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

32.

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

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

40.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

41.

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 feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Law, William

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