Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Mother Teresa

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

13.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

15.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

21.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

27.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

28.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

39.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

45.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

49.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August