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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Proust, Marcel

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

11.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

17.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

18.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

20.

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.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Jennifer Aniston

25.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

27.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

28.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

29.

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

30.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

31.

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

Reik, Theodor

32.

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

33.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

34.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

35.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

36.

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

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

39.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

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

45.

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

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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

49.

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

Du Coeur

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John