Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Nathan, George Jean

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.