Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

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

11.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

20.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

22.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Mencken, H. L.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

26.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

27.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

31.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

42.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

43.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De