Motivational Quotes

Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

14.

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

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

29.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

30.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

40.

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

Irving, Washington

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin