Motivational Quotes

Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about 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

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Layton, Irving

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, 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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Delp, Alexis

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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

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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.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen