Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilkerson, David

Best Quotes about Love

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Jean Anouilh

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

10.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

14.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

18.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

19.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

20.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

22.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

25.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

27.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

33.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

34.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

35.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Orwell, George

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.