Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Disney, Walt

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

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

William Shakespeare

24.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

25.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

29.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

30.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

34.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

36.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.