Motivational Quotes

Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

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.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

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

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

16.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

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

19.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

20.

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

Updike, John

21.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

25.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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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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

28.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

30.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

31.

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

Diane Ackerman

32.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

33.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

37.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

40.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

41.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

42.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Aristotle

45.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

49.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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

Disney, Walt