Motivational Quotes

Love

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Irish

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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

Ice T

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy