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 would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Eliot, T. S.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Voltaire

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

18.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

20.

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 I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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

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