Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

- Toni Morrison

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

12.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

13.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

14.

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

15.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Sand, George

18.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

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

21.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

27.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

28.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

32.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

35.

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

Jeph Jacques

36.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

42.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

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

45.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

49.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

50.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.