Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

- Shadwell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

17.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Bible

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

32.

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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Delp, Alexis

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe