Motivational Quotes

Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Love

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

Tomlin, Lily

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

10.

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

Mcdonald, George

11.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

14.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

25.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Hay, Louise L.

28.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

29.

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 is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

33.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

34.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Alan Watts

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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

42.

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

Chanel, Coco

43.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

44.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

45.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nathan, George Jean

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Updike, John