Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

12.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

14.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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 is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

39.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara