Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Scherer, Paul

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

11.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Penn

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

William Shakespeare

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Reagan, Ronald

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. 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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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert