Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

11.

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

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

20.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Levine, Stephen

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Tomlin, Lily

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt