Motivational Quotes

Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Jeph Jacques

20.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

24.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

25.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

26.

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.

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

28.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

29.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

30.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

31.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

32.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

33.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

35.

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

36.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

41.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

42.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.