Motivational Quotes

Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

12.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

13.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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

15.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

16.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

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

Orwell, George

18.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

21.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

23.

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

24.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

25.

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

Disney, Walt

26.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

32.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

35.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

37.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

38.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

39.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

40.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

46.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.