Motivational Quotes

Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Allen, Woody

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

11.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

21.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

24.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

25.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

26.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

27.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

28.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

30.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

32.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

33.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

36.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Jane Austen

41.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

42.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

43.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano