Motivational Quotes

Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

- Leach, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Bailey, Pearl

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sand, George

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

10.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

13.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

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

15.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

17.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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.

22.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Harrigan, John

24.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

27.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

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

29.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

30.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

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.

33.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

42.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr