Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jeph Jacques

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Menninger, Karl A.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Joyce, James

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

16.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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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 is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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