Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Chanel, Coco

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

11.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Reik, Theodor

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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

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

16.

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

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

21.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

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 delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

30.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

31.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

43.

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

44.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

William Shakespeare

49.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.