Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

- Macarius of Egypt, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Williams, William Carlos

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Charles M. Schulz

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

41.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Richardson, Nick

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

Margaret Cho

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La