Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Peguy, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

10.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

12.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Peguy, Charles

16.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

20.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

23.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

24.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Eliot, T. S.

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

32.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

33.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Rowland, Helen

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

48.

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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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa