Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

12.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

17.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

19.

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

Blanton, Smiley

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

22.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

28.

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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

30.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

31.

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

32.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

35.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Scherer, Paul

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Crawford, Joan

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Lovers should also have their days off.