Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

- Youngman, Henny

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

11.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

14.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

19.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

22.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

28.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

29.

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

Updike, John

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love alone could waken love.