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

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Fox, Emmet

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

25.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Swift, Jonathan

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

32.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

35.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Chambless, David

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.