Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Love

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

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Pavese, Cesare

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Charles M. Schulz

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Law, William

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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