Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Brooke, Rupert

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

33.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

46.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

48.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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