Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Mansfield, Katherine

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carroll, Pat

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.