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

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

19.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Buddha

25.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Donne, John

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bertrand Russell

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

47.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.