Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

- Hirschfield, Mangnu

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

10.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

11.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Jerome, St.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

18.

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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

22.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

25.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

28.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

29.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

30.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

41.

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

42.

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

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

45.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

50.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma