Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

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

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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 is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Dickinson, Emily

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