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

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davies, Robertson

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

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

William Shakespeare

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

18.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

23.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

24.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

26.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

28.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

32.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

33.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

34.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

35.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

38.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

39.

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

Scherer, Paul

40.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

42.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

43.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

44.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Brooke, Rupert

47.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

49.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques