Motivational Quotes

Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

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

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blanton, Smiley

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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

11.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

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 is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Peguy, Charles

25.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

27.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

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

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

40.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.