Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

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

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

10.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

14.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

15.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

17.

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

18.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

20.

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 is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

26.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

27.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

28.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

29.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

35.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

37.

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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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

40.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

43.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

46.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Laing, R. D.

48.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

49.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale