Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

- Viorst, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Mencken, H. L.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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 is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

28.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Blanton, Smiley

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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