Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Victor Hugo

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

10.

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

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

Proverb, Japanese

15.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

17.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

18.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

19.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

21.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

25.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

26.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

27.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

28.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

29.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

30.

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

Turner, Ted

31.

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

Bible

33.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

36.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

38.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

42.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

43.

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

44.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

49.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise