Motivational Quotes

Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

- Bourget, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

10.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

13.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

16.

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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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Euripides

21.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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

23.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

24.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

25.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

28.

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

29.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

44.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.