Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

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

12.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

16.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

19.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Peter Ustinov

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

28.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

40.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson