Motivational Quotes

Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

10.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

15.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

16.

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

Davies, Robertson

17.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

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

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

26.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

27.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

28.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

29.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

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

Paolo Giordano

31.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

32.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

35.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

37.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

40.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

42.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

46.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

50.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview