Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Chambless, David

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

28.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jane Austen

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

Aragon, Louis

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Fox, Emmet

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

34.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Ferry, Brian

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

Chanel, Coco

40.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

41.

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Traherne, Thomas

44.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld