Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Paolo Giordano

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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

11.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

12.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

13.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

19.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

20.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

22.

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

Michael Patrick King

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

32.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

33.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

34.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

35.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

36.

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

Verse, A Haiku

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

44.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.