Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

William Shakespeare

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

Osgood, Samuel

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

12.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

13.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

14.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

18.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

19.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

30.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo