Motivational Quotes

Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Love

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

Seneca

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

16.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

18.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

25.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

27.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

30.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

31.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

32.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

36.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

37.

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.

38.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

40.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

42.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bertrand Russell

45.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

49.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare