Motivational Quotes

Love

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

10.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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.

12.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

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 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

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

23.

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

Chambless, David

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

30.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

31.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

34.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

John of the Cross, St.

37.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

46.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.