Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

13.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

16.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

18.

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

Groening, Matt

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

22.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

29.

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

Donne, John

30.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

31.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

32.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

38.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

45.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

46.

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

47.

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

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.