Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Orwell, George

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Chanel, Coco

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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