Motivational Quotes

Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Michael Patrick King

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

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

Eucharista Ward

12.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

43.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

48.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert