Motivational Quotes

Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Love

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

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.

Tebbets, Frank

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Burton, Robert

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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