Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Aristotle

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

11.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

22.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

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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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 is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

37.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

41.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

46.

French, Marilyn

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

48.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare