Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

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

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

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jeph Jacques

10.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

15.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

22.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

23.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

25.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

26.

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

Buddha

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

28.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

33.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Carmichael, Amy

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

41.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

48.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

49.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare