Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proust, Marcel

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

11.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

12.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bertrand Russell

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Connolly, Cyril

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

44.

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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Bible

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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