Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Leunig, Michael

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

10.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

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

Williams, William Carlos

13.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

17.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

24.

'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

25.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

27.

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

Rita Rudner

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

34.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

35.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Taylor, Jeremy

38.

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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Jeanne Moreau

41.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

42.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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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

45.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita