Motivational Quotes

Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Donne, John

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

10.

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

11.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

12.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

13.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

14.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

15.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

19.

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.

20.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

21.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

22.

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

23.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

24.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

25.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

26.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

27.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

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

Aragon, Louis

29.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

31.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

33.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

34.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

35.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

38.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

43.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.