Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Ice T

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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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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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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 thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.