Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

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

Parker, Dorothy

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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 the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Michael Patrick King

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Barry, Lynda

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.