Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

18.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

24.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

31.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

34.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Ferry, Brian

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl