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 bridge between two hearts.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Voltaire

10.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Barry, Lynda

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

26.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Thurber, James

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Chambless, David

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.