Motivational Quotes

Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

10.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

11.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

13.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

18.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

19.

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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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

25.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

29.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

36.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

43.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

44.

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

Sand, George

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Hay, Louise L.