Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Charles M. Schulz

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

11.

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

12.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

14.

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

Bible

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Plato

18.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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 is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

28.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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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.

39.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

46.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo