Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Buddha

10.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Peguy, Charles

14.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

18.

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

Traherne, Thomas

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

20.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

DiFranco, Ani

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

30.

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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Sand, George

33.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

35.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Chanel, Coco

38.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

39.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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

41.

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

Fox, Emmet

42.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

44.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

48.

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

John of the Cross, St.

49.

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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van