Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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.

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

William Shakespeare

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

11.

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

Bridges, Robert

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Proverb

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi