Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

10.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

11.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

12.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Traherne, Thomas

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

20.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

22.

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

Osgood, Samuel

23.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Mother Teresa

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

31.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

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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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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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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

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.