Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Murdoch, Iris

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

15.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

16.

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

21.

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

22.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

23.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

24.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

25.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

26.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

29.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

30.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

31.

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

Groening, Matt

32.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

33.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

35.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

36.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

41.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

43.

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

Chanel, Coco

44.

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

Charles M. Schulz

45.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

46.

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 always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

48.

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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce