Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

- Rossner, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Dryden, John

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

25.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

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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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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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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

Proverb, Japanese

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John