Motivational Quotes

Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

- Monica Fairview

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Heinlein, Robert

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Buddha

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

15.

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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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 snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.