Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

11.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

13.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

14.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

15.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

16.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

17.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

19.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

20.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

22.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

23.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Behn, Aphra

26.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

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

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

32.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

33.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

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

Aragon, Louis

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

40.

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

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

45.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

46.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

47.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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We live in the world when we love it.