Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buddha

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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.

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

31.

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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.