Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Gibran, Kahlil

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

15.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

18.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

19.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

21.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

22.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

25.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

27.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

28.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

29.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

32.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

34.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

36.

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.

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

41.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

42.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

44.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

45.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

46.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

47.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther