Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Euripides

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Peguy, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

32.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

William Shakespeare

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Brown, Les

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare