Motivational Quotes

Love

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

- Bandler, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

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

Youngman, Henny

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Bible

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

13.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

15.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

19.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

27.

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

Mother Teresa

28.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

29.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sand, George

32.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

33.

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

Delp, Alexis

34.

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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

41.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

42.

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.

43.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

45.

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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare