Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Bible

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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 beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Buddha

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Murdoch, Iris

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

40.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Eucharista Ward

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland