Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Rowland, Helen

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

11.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Layton, Irving

16.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

20.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

27.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

28.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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.

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Saltus, Edgar

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

35.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Osgood, Samuel

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.