Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

11.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

30.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

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

33.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare