Motivational Quotes

Love

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

10.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

35.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.