Motivational Quotes

Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Turner, Ted

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Mother Teresa

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

44.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Meredith, George

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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa