Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Calvino, Italo

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peguy, Charles

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

16.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

25.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

27.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

28.

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

29.

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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

31.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.