Motivational Quotes

Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

- Ferry, Brian

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

10.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

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

14.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Calvino, Italo

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

28.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Disney, Walt

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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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 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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Buddha