Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Capote, Truman

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

West, Mae

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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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

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke