Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Penn

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Bible

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata