Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

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

Duras, Marguerite

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Disney, Walt

11.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

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

18.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

19.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

26.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

27.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

28.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

36.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

37.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Orwell, George

39.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

44.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

46.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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

48.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert