Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Horton, Doug

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin