Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fromm, Erich

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

11.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

12.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Murdoch, Iris

18.

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

19.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

29.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

30.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

31.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

35.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

36.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

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

Saltus, Edgar

38.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

39.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

42.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

43.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

44.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Bible

46.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy