Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barry, Lynda

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Smith, Sydney

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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