Motivational Quotes

Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Bailey, Pearl

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Peguy, Charles

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Sand, George

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.