Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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.

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

Brooke, Rupert

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

11.

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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Sand, George

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Ovid

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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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, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Jean Anouilh

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hugo, Victor

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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