Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von