Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bacon, Francis

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

10.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

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

Traherne, Thomas

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

15.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

16.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

17.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

18.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

19.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

21.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

24.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

27.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

28.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

29.

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

Davies, Robertson

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

33.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

34.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

35.

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

36.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

37.

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.

38.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Charles M. Schulz

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Learn what you are and be such.