Motivational Quotes

Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

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

Randy K. Milholland

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.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

William Penn

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

Charles M. Schulz

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Southey, Robert

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Proverb, French

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

29.

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

Sarton, May

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

31.

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

Wilde, Kim

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

Sand, George

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William