Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

17.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

21.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

23.

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

Euripides

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

Chanel, Coco

25.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

30.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

31.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

34.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

36.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.