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

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

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Behn, Aphra

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 the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Southey, Robert

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Fromm, Erich

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Law, William

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril