Motivational Quotes

Love

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Best Quotes about Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Groening, Matt

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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

10.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

15.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Turner, Ted

19.

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

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

Disney, Walt

22.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

William Shakespeare

27.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Euripides

32.

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

DiFranco, Ani

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

35.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

36.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

37.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

38.

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

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

42.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Murdoch, Iris

46.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

47.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Menninger, Karl A.

49.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite