Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

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

Paolo Giordano

10.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

11.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

12.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Desai, Yogi

15.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

18.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

25.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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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

30.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Brooke, Rupert

40.

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

Clark, Melanie

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

45.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

46.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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