Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi