Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, while you are able to love.

- Frieligrath, A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ice T

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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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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.