Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

- Hirschfield, Mangnu

Best Quotes about Love

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

Tomlin, Lily

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

12.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Byron, Lord

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sophocles

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

43.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

44.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne