Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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 an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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

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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

37.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

38.

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

Leunig, Michael

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh