Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

- Smith, Wolfman Jack

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sophocles

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

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

Ice T

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

11.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rowland, Helen

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

22.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

24.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

25.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

28.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

41.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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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 (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

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

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Love's reason's without reason.