Motivational Quotes

Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Hugo, Victor

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

10.

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

Bailey, Pearl

11.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

12.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

13.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

15.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

17.

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

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Margaret Cho

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

24.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

26.

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

27.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

28.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

29.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Reik, Theodor

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

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

Proust, Marcel

36.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Shakespeare, William

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret