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 is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Bailey, Pearl

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

11.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

18.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Buddha

26.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

30.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

32.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

33.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

34.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

35.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

37.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Levine, Stephen

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

41.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

44.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

46.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

49.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John