Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Ice T

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

10.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

12.

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

Heinlein, Robert

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

25.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

28.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

31.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

43.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

49.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jeph Jacques