Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

22.

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

Irving, Washington

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

34.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

35.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.