Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

14.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

15.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Paolo Giordano

20.

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

21.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

22.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

23.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

24.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

29.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

33.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

36.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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.

39.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

40.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

44.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

49.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

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