Motivational Quotes

Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Williams, William Carlos

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

11.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

12.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

18.

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

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

25.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

28.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

31.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Law, William

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

Behn, Aphra

40.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

42.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.