Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Behn, Aphra

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Bridges, Robert

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

22.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

John Sheffield

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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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.

33.

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

Tomlin, Lily

34.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

41.

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

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Euripides

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Peter Ustinov

47.

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

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare