Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Byron, Lord

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Kempis, Thomas

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

12.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

14.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

16.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

17.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

18.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

19.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

21.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

25.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

26.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bertrand Russell

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Leunig, Michael

31.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

32.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

37.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

40.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

41.

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

42.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Seneca