Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

11.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

12.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

13.

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

14.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

17.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

18.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

22.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

26.

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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

30.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

33.

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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

35.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

36.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

41.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

42.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

44.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

45.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

49.

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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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von