Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

J. K. Rowling

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

10.

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

Williams, William Carlos

11.

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

Paolo Giordano

12.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

15.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

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

19.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

20.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Peguy, Charles

25.

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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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

30.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

38.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

39.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

41.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges