Motivational Quotes

Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Murdoch, Iris

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Euripides

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aristotle

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

28.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Diane Ackerman

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Connolly, Cyril

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.