Motivational Quotes

Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

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

Seneca

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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 matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of