Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Duras, Marguerite

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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Jane Austen

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey