Motivational Quotes

Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Love

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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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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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Bridges, Robert

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare