Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

John of the Cross, St.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Hay, Louise L.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

William Shakespeare

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

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

Carmichael, Amy

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Donne, John

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley