Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Jeph Jacques

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Paolo Giordano

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret