Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Ice T

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Ferry, Brian

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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