Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Peguy, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Southey, Robert

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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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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 is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

John Sheffield

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

44.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Ice T

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William