Motivational Quotes

Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Auvil, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Love

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Traherne, Thomas

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

25.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya