Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

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

Allen, Woody

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Strindberg, J. August

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

10.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

11.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

13.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

16.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

19.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

21.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

22.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

23.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

24.

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

25.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

27.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

30.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

31.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

34.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

37.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

41.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

43.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

44.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Anderson, Margaret