Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

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

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Meredith, George

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

11.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

13.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

14.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

15.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

17.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

18.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

22.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

23.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Du Coeur

25.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

27.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

28.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

29.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

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

Erica Jong

31.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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.

33.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

35.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

40.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

44.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

45.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford