Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

18.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

19.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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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.

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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'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

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

34.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Stravinsky, Igor