Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

- Eschenbach, Marie E.

Best Quotes about Love

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

10.

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

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

13.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

17.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

18.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

19.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

20.

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

National Lampoon

21.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

22.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

23.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

24.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

31.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

32.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

36.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

44.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Julie Morgenstern

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.