Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Love

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

10.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

11.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

14.

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

15.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

16.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

17.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

18.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

19.

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

20.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Chambless, David

30.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

35.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Fromm, Erich

45.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

47.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

48.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.