Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Crawford, Joan

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Turner, Ted

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

13.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

14.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

17.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

22.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

25.

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

26.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

32.

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

33.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

39.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

40.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

41.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

48.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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