Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Barry, Lynda

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

12.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

15.

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

Southey, Robert

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

17.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Clark, Melanie

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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

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

32.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

38.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.