Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sophocles

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

11.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

12.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

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

14.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

21.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

22.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sarton, May

24.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Bertrand Russell

27.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

31.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

32.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

34.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

35.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

36.

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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

38.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

39.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

40.

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

41.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Meredith, George

43.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von