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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

11.

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

12.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

16.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

19.

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

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

21.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

22.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

27.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

31.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

32.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

33.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

34.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

50.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.