Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Du Coeur

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

21.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

27.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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

37.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

38.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

Delp, Alexis

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von