Motivational Quotes

Love

We live in the world when we love it.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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.

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

Sophocles

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Leunig, Michael

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Irish

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Pythagoras

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William