Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Alan Watts

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

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Augustine, St.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Ferry, Brian

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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hay, Louise L.

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hugo, Victor

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.