Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Elizabeth Aston

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Traherne, Thomas

13.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

15.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

16.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

21.

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

James, William

22.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

23.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

24.

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

25.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

28.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

31.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

39.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

42.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

43.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah