Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

- Hurston, Zora Neale

Best Quotes about Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

William Shakespeare

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Ice T

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Verse, A Haiku

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

35.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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