Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

13.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

18.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

19.

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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

22.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Calvino, Italo

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

40.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

44.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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