Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Best Quotes about Love

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Layton, Irving

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Byron, Lord

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

13.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

18.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

42.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Davies, Robertson