Motivational Quotes

Love

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Bible

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

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

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

12.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Harrigan, John

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

21.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

25.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

29.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

34.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

38.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

44.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

46.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Layton, Irving

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.