Motivational Quotes

Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Brookner, Anita

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

16.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

18.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

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

Aragon, Louis

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

29.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

32.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

33.

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

34.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Euripides

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

40.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

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

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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.

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.