Motivational Quotes

Love

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Michael Patrick King

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Byron, Lord

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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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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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David