Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Reik, Theodor

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Parker, Dorothy

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

12.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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.

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

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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