Motivational Quotes

Love

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Real Live Preacher

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

10.

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

11.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

12.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

13.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

21.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

22.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Voltaire

24.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

25.

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

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

28.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

31.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

44.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

50.

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