Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Menninger, Karl A.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

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

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

John of the Cross, St.

28.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

29.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

33.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

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

Reik, Theodor

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

Confucius

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

42.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

43.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

45.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

47.

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

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Proverb, Spanish