Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Carroll, Pat

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De