Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

11.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

12.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

13.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

14.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

20.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

24.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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

27.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

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 most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

49.

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

Rowland, Helen

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?