Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Love

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

11.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Jeanne Moreau

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

38.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

49.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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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