Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

- Wilkerson, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Murdoch, Iris

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

13.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

14.

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

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

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

21.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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.

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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

30.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

34.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

35.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

36.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

37.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

38.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Delp, Alexis

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

49.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A heart that loves is always young.