Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Murdoch, Iris

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

17.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

18.

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

19.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

Disney, Walt

21.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

22.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

24.

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

25.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

Jeph Jacques

27.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

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

29.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

30.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

32.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

33.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

34.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

40.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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

42.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

49.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley