Motivational Quotes

Love

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Jeph Jacques

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

18.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

35.

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

Layton, Irving

36.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

40.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon