Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Carroll, Pat

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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 built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.