Motivational Quotes

Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Law, William

10.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

12.

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

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

14.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

15.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

16.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

19.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

20.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

21.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

22.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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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

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

28.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

33.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

35.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

36.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

38.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

39.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

42.

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

Duras, Marguerite

43.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.