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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

William Shakespeare

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

Davis, Bette

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crawford, Joan

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

27.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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 we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Buddha

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

37.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

41.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

42.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.