Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Rowland, Helen

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

25.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Allen, Woody

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Mother Teresa

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare