Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Davies, Robertson

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

William Shakespeare

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

10.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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

Bible

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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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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The hottest love has the coldest end.