Motivational Quotes

Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

- Steinfeld, Jake

Best Quotes about Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

10.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Layton, Irving

13.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

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

Peter Ustinov

15.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

16.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

17.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

21.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

Euripides

24.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

25.

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

Law, William

26.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

32.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

33.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

34.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

35.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

38.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

41.

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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William