Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Alan Watts

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wieder, Marcia

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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.

40.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.