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

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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 is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Ice T

34.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

37.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

38.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

39.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

40.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

43.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.