Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

10.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Groening, Matt

13.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

20.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

22.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

24.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

25.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

42.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.