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

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Brooke, Rupert

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

10.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

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

John of the Cross, St.

15.

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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

18.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

23.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

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

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

28.

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

Law, William

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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.

34.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

37.

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.

38.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

40.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Carlyle, Thomas