Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Strindberg, J. August

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

15.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

16.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

18.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

19.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Byron, Lord

22.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

23.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

24.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

25.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

33.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

34.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

35.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

37.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

38.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

40.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

44.

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

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

46.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite