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 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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

10.

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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Murdoch, Iris

13.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

15.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

16.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

17.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

18.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

21.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

23.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

24.

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

25.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

27.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

28.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

29.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

30.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

31.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

32.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

34.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

35.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

37.

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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

39.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

40.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

41.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

45.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

47.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

48.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae