Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Capote, Truman

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

14.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

18.

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

Martineau, Harriet

19.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Sand, George

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

33.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Bible

39.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

40.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Proverb

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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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Behn, Aphra

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire