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

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Chambless, David

10.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

18.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

35.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

36.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

37.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

43.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

44.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.