Motivational Quotes

Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

Davies, Robertson

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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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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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Jane Austen

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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

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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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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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