Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Paolo Giordano

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harrigan, John

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Hertl, Nick

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

26.

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 is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

39.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard