Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

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

Davies, Robertson

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

15.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

20.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

21.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

30.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

31.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Alan Watts

40.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

45.

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

Allen, Woody

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

49.

'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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet