Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

William Shakespeare

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

William Shakespeare

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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 hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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

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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Victor Hugo

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Penn

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La