Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

13.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Du Coeur

15.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Plato

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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

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

26.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sand, George

30.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

42.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

43.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.