Motivational Quotes

Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Reik, Theodor

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

14.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

17.

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

18.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

21.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

22.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

27.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

28.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

29.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

30.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

31.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

33.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Real Live Preacher

36.

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

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]