Motivational Quotes

Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Connolly, Cyril

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

11.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

17.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

19.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Elizabeth Aston

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

34.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

39.

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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]