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

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dickinson, Emily

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Toni Morrison

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Davies, Robertson

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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.

28.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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.

Monica Fairview

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

46.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir