Motivational Quotes

Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Love

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

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Sarton, May

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

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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

12.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

14.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

15.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

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

17.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

18.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

19.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

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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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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

26.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

27.

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

28.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

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

Levine, Stephen

30.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

34.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

40.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

41.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

43.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

45.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.