Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

11.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

17.

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

Du Coeur

18.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

19.

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

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

21.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

22.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

23.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

24.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

27.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

28.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

41.

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

Tomlin, Lily

42.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

43.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

44.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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