Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

13.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

15.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

Law, William

18.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

22.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

23.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

24.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

27.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

28.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

33.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

34.

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

35.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

39.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Diane Ackerman

41.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

42.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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

Elizabeth Aston

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.