Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Marlowe, Christopher

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

10.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

J. K. Rowling

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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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

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

37.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

39.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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