Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Wilde, Kim

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

10.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

11.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

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

Elizabeth Aston

13.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

14.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

16.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

17.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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.

20.

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

Chanel, Coco

21.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

26.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

30.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Bible

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Vicious, Sid

45.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

48.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Lewis, Sinclair