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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

10.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

11.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

14.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

16.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

18.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

20.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

22.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

24.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

27.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

30.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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

32.

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

33.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

34.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

36.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

37.

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.

38.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

42.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

43.

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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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar