Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

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

Burton, Robert

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

10.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

18.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

19.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Margaret Cho

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

28.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

31.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

38.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Brown, David

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic