Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Erica Jong

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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

18.

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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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Peter Ustinov

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

31.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

34.

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

35.

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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Behn, Aphra

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