Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Proust, Marcel

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Peguy, Charles

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

Fromm, Erich

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Allen, Woody

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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.

21.

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

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

26.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

32.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

36.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

41.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Dyer, Wayne