Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scherer, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Bible

12.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

13.

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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

17.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

18.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

25.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

26.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

28.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

31.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

32.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

33.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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.

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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 is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bible

44.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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 idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

49.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.