Motivational Quotes

Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Blanton, Smiley

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

12.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

13.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

14.

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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

19.

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

20.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

21.

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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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

Vicious, Sid

27.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

29.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

43.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

44.

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.

45.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

46.

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.