Motivational Quotes

Love

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

11.

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

Stael, Germaine De

13.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

14.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

40.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank