Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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

Alan Watts

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Tracy, Brian

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.