Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

11.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

21.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

25.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

31.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

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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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis