Motivational Quotes

Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

- Flaherty, Edward

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Fromm, Erich

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

10.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

11.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

12.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

15.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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

18.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

19.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

23.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

24.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

29.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

30.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

31.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

33.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

34.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

40.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

41.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

45.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

46.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

48.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.