Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

16.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

18.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

20.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

21.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

24.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

25.

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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Margaret Cho

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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, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

34.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

John Sheffield

37.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

40.

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

Hertl, Nick

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

43.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

45.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

46.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

47.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice