Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

10.

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

11.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Ferry, Brian

14.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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

18.

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

Carmichael, Amy

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

21.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

24.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Fox, Emmet

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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

34.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

40.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

41.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

42.

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

Laing, R. D.

43.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

48.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland