Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

15.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Barry, Lynda

21.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

William Shakespeare

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

32.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van