Motivational Quotes

Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

National Lampoon

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

13.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

14.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

17.

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

18.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

20.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

27.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

28.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

29.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

30.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

33.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

34.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

35.

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

36.

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

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Julie Morgenstern

41.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

42.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

44.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

49.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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.