Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-Tzu

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Ovid

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

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Brown, Les

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

23.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Ted

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Anouilh, Jean

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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