Motivational Quotes

Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chambless, David

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

12.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

14.

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

Wieder, Marcia

15.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

18.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

25.

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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

27.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

28.

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

29.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

34.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

44.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

45.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

49.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh