Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Buber, Martin

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

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

11.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

15.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

31.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

36.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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.

40.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

47.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin