Motivational Quotes

Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hugo, Victor

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Jane Austen

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peguy, Charles

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

49.

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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare