Motivational Quotes

Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Proverb, Irish

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

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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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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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

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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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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Voltaire

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo