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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Rita Rudner

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

10.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.