Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Behn, Aphra

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

10.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Updike, John

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

21.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

28.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

29.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

32.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

33.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

40.

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 conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

43.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

47.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

48.

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.