Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Jerome, St.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buber, Martin

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Thurber, James

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dickinson, Emily

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Dryden, John

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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

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.