Motivational Quotes

Love

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ice T

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Du Coeur

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

10.

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

11.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

14.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Euripides

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

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

Law, William

18.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

23.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

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

30.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Ovid

33.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

36.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

37.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

38.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

47.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.