Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Pavese, Cesare

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

13.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

15.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

16.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

20.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

31.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

32.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

33.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

34.

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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

40.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

41.

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

Dane, Frank

42.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.