Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Ovid

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

11.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

12.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

17.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

20.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

22.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

23.

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

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

25.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

26.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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

31.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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

33.

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

34.

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

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

38.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

40.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

45.

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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.