Motivational Quotes

Love

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Jean Anouilh

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

15.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

19.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

23.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Seneca

25.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

26.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

27.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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.

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

45.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

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

Sand, George

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce