Motivational Quotes

Love

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

- Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Rossetti, Christina

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

13.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

20.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

22.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

24.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

28.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

30.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

31.

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

32.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

42.

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

Blanton, Smiley

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

45.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn