Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

11.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

22.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Wilkerson, David

24.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

25.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

28.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

30.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

33.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

38.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

42.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Euripides

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

49.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

50.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne