Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Law, William

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

11.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

12.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

13.

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

Proust, Marcel

14.

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

15.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

16.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

17.

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

Elizabeth Aston

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

23.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

25.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

29.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Ackerman, Diane

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

36.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

37.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

38.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Jean Anouilh

41.

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.

42.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

43.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

45.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

48.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

49.

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

Du Coeur

50.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare