Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

12.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

15.

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

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

National Lampoon

20.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

21.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

25.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

30.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

33.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

35.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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