Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

William Shakespeare

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

John Sheffield

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Peguy, Charles

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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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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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

36.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

40.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

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

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

47.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell