Motivational Quotes

Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Crawford, Joan

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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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

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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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 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