Motivational Quotes

Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

- Dioum, Baba

Best Quotes about Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Lawrence, D. H.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Mcdonald, George

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

47.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

48.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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