Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

12.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

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

14.

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

15.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Verse, A Haiku

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

35.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, David

37.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

41.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

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

45.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

48.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.