Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

10.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

11.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

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

14.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

16.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

17.

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

Reik, Theodor

18.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

19.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Davis, Bette

22.

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

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

Croft, Roy

24.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Victor Hugo

26.

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.

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

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

31.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

32.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

36.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

39.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

40.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

41.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

43.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

44.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

45.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

49.

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.