Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

- Groening, Matt

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

'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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Burton, Robert

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Wilkerson, David

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank