Motivational Quotes

Love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Aristotle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Rossetti, Christina

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 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

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Real Live Preacher

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

23.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

25.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Euripides

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Van Gogh, Vincent