Motivational Quotes

Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Love

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

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

Updike, John

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fromm, Erich

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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 the victim's response to the rapist.