Motivational Quotes

Love

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

- Bridges, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

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

11.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

13.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

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

Sarton, May

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

19.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

27.

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

29.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

30.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

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

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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.

33.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

34.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

38.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

39.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

40.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

42.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

43.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

44.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

45.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

46.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

49.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.