Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buber, Martin

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Traherne, Thomas

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

10.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

11.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

12.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

13.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

14.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

16.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

17.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

19.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

20.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

24.

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

Jean Anouilh

25.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

26.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

31.

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

Sophocles

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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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.

38.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

44.

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

45.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

50.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview