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 is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jean Anouilh

11.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

24.

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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Euripides

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

Pythagoras

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

30.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.