Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Love

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

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

12.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

16.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

25.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

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

Richardson, Nick

29.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

31.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

34.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

38.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

42.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

43.

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

44.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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