Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Irving, Washington

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Verse, A Haiku

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

13.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

14.

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.

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

17.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

18.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Duras, Marguerite

22.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

23.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

26.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

29.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

34.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

40.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

41.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

42.

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 of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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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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

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

49.

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

50.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord