Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

10.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

11.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

16.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

18.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

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

23.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

24.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

25.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

26.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

34.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

36.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

37.

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

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

40.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

42.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

44.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

45.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

46.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

47.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

50.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas