Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

14.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

15.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Bible

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

Mcdonald, George

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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 the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

34.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry