Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

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

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Youngman, Henny

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Peter Ustinov

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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 is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Penn

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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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent