Motivational Quotes

Love

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

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

12.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

20.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

23.

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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

25.

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

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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

28.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

31.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

32.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Jennifer Aniston

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Meredith, George

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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

42.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare