Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

10.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

19.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Southey, Robert

22.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

23.

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

24.

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

Chanel, Coco

25.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

34.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

41.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

44.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.