Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Love

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Guthrie, Arlo

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Brookner, Anita

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

14.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

21.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

25.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

33.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

34.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.