Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

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

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Sarton, May

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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 shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

22.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

27.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

42.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.