Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hardenberg, Novalis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Charles M. Schulz

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

18.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

23.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

29.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

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

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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