Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

- Drewar, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Ice T

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Bailey, Pearl

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

12.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

13.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

18.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

26.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.