Motivational Quotes

Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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 stronger than justice.

Sting

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Michael Patrick King

10.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Osgood, Samuel

15.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

16.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

21.

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

Peguy, Charles

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

23.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

25.

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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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

29.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

30.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

35.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

45.

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

Leunig, Michael

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.