Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Love

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lennon, John

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Desai, Yogi

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

Bible

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

26.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

27.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

30.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

34.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Saltus, Edgar

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De