Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Scott Westerfeld

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Jane Austen

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

12.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

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

16.

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

Ferry, Brian

17.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

18.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

20.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

21.

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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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

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

Bailey, Pearl

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

30.

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

Confucius

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

32.

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

33.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

34.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

35.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

38.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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 is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

44.

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

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

49.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David