Motivational Quotes

Love

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Hertl, Nick

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

Scherer, Paul

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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jeanne Moreau

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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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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

33.

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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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