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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Mother Teresa

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

15.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Penn

28.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

29.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

34.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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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 unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Reagan, Ronald

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques