Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Scherer, Paul

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

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

Behn, Aphra

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

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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 ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Laing, R. D.

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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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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

Buddha

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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