Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

10.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

11.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

12.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

13.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

19.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

20.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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.

22.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

30.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Osgood, Samuel

33.

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

James, William

35.

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

48.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

49.

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

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure