Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fromm, Erich

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha