Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

11.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

17.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

18.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

19.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Jeph Jacques

25.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

29.

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

David Viscott

30.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

31.

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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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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

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Meredith, George

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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

43.

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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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

50.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh