Motivational Quotes

Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brooke, Rupert

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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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 is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Carmichael, Amy

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John