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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Victor Hugo

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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