Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Love

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sophocles

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Eucharista Ward

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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 is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Rossetti, Christina

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu