Motivational Quotes

Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

- Becker, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

19.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Becker, Ernest

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

29.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Layton, Irving

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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

34.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

39.

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

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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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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Ice T

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred