Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Peguy, Charles

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.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Fromm, Erich

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert