Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Plato

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

31.

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 woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.