Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Paolo Giordano

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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.

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

11.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Blanton, Smiley

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Capote, Truman

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

William Penn

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

33.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

34.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

Bailey, Pearl

44.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.