Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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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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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

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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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.