Motivational Quotes

Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

- Duffy, Maureen

Best Quotes about Love

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

11.

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

12.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

13.

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

Laing, R. D.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

19.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

20.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

26.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

30.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

31.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

32.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

Brooke, Rupert

36.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

38.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

39.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

40.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

41.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

44.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

45.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Bible

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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