Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Sophocles

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

15.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

17.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

18.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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.

25.

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

Aristotle

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

27.

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

Vicious, Sid

28.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

32.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

49.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary