Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

10.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

11.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

16.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

17.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

21.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

25.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

29.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Peguy, Charles

31.

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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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

34.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

37.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

38.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

42.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

44.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.