Motivational Quotes

Love

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Fromm, Erich

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Bible

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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 that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

18.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

21.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

32.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thurber, James

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Barry, Lynda

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

45.

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

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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

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David