Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

13.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

14.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

21.

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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dickinson, Emily

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

32.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Chambless, David

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Disney, Walt

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Irving, Washington

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

Youngman, Henny