Motivational Quotes

Love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Fromm, Erich

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Sand, George

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bailey, Pearl

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean 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 is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Thurber, James

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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 is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Calvino, Italo

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Behn, Aphra

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ovid

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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