Motivational Quotes

Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

15.

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

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

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.

19.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

20.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

21.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

25.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

28.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

29.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

30.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

31.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Du Coeur

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Peter Ustinov

40.

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

Updike, John

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian