Motivational Quotes

Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

- Algren, Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Disney, Walt

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Turner, Ted

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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

22.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Algren, Nelson

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

Smith, Sydney

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

49.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street