Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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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

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jean Anouilh

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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