Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Angelis, Barbara De

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

12.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

17.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

18.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

19.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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

22.

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

23.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

24.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

John Sheffield

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.