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

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

12.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

25.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

36.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

40.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jane Austen

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

44.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

47.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David