Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

- Josh Brand and John Falsey

Best Quotes about Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hay, Louise L.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

J. K. Rowling

11.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

13.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

14.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Buddha

22.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

26.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

27.

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

28.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

31.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

32.

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

Peter Ustinov

33.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

34.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

36.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

37.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

Fromm, Erich

41.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

42.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

47.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen