Motivational Quotes

Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

- O'Brien, Edna

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

10.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

33.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

40.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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.