Motivational Quotes

Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Bible

12.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

13.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

18.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

20.

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

21.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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.

25.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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

33.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

41.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

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

47.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

48.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

49.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine