Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Anderson, Margaret

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

11.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

12.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

15.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

17.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

19.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

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

26.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

27.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

28.

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

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

30.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

31.

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

Osgood, Samuel

32.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

33.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

34.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.