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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Buddha

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Wieder, Marcia

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

40.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

41.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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.