Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

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.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

J. K. Rowling

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

10.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

16.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

21.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

22.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

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

Hertl, Nick

25.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

28.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

29.

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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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

33.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

34.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

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

37.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

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

Law, William

41.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.