Motivational Quotes

Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

- Dioum, Baba

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Aragon, Louis

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

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

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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

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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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

30.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

33.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

John of the Cross, St.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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