Motivational Quotes

Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

12.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Alan Watts

21.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

34.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

37.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.