Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

13.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

16.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

19.

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

20.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

23.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

26.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

27.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

29.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

30.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

31.

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

Fromm, Erich

32.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Bailey, Pearl

34.

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

35.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

38.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

39.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

41.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

44.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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

48.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

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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