Motivational Quotes

Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hertl, Nick

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

10.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

19.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

22.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

25.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

30.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.