Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Willis, Bruce

Best Quotes about Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

12.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

15.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

16.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

17.

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

18.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

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

Fromm, Erich

21.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

22.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

23.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

24.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

29.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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.

33.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

40.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Alan Watts

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

44.

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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril

50.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl