Motivational Quotes

Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

- Algren, Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Desai, Yogi

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Delp, Alexis

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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

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Bible

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.