Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Law, William

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Chambless, David

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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

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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 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.

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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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Augustine, St.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William