Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Jeph Jacques

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Clark, Melanie

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

21.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

26.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

31.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Buddha

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

45.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen