Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Reagan, Ronald

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

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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.

11.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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

14.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Mcdonald, George

18.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

24.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

26.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

David Viscott

31.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

33.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

35.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.

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

Bible

37.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Paolo Giordano

40.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

41.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

42.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith