Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

15.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

19.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

21.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

25.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

27.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

28.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

29.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

31.

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.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Anderson, Margaret

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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.

36.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

38.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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