Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

12.

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.

13.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

16.

'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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Victor Hugo

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

27.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

28.

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

29.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Elizabeth Aston

33.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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

39.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von