Motivational Quotes

Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Mcdonald, George

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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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.

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Dane, Frank

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Bible

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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 friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Bible

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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

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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy