Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

Euripides

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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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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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 is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Peter Ustinov

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

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