Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

11.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Buddha

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

21.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

22.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

23.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

26.

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.

27.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

28.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

30.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

32.

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

33.

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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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

39.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

41.

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

Horton, Doug

42.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

43.

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

Hay, Louise L.

44.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

46.

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

47.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

49.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.