Motivational Quotes

Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

10.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

11.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Brooke, Rupert

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Scott Westerfeld

19.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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

31.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Chambless, David

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Scherer, Paul

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Law, William