Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

William Shakespeare

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

10.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

17.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

18.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

23.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

25.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

26.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

27.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

31.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

34.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

37.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

39.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

44.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

46.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.