Motivational Quotes

Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

10.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

11.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

12.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

16.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

18.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

20.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

24.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

32.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

33.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Scherer, Paul

35.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

36.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

37.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

40.

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

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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

43.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

49.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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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