Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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, 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

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

20.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

40.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Rowland, Helen

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.