Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Donne, John

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

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

11.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

18.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

19.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

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

24.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

J. K. Rowling

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

30.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Bible

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

46.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord