Motivational Quotes

Love

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

- Marlowe, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

10.

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

Barry, Lynda

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

17.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

20.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

21.

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

22.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

25.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

28.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Hay, Louise L.

30.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Shakespeare, William

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

40.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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.

43.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

44.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Capote, Truman

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)