Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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 am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen