Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

DiFranco, Ani

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

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

Jeanne Moreau

11.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

12.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

13.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

16.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

23.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

25.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

26.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

27.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

28.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

29.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

37.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

38.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

39.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

41.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

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

Hay, Louise L.

43.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

49.

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

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.