Motivational Quotes

Love

We live in the world when we love it.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

John Sheffield

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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 best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert