Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Calvino, Italo

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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.

11.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scherer, Paul

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

21.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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

25.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

26.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

40.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

48.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

49.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen