Motivational Quotes

Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

12.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

13.

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

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

15.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

Bible

17.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

18.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

19.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

20.

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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

25.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

26.

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

27.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Buddha

29.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

32.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

34.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

35.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

41.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.