Motivational Quotes

Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

John of the Cross, St.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Duffy, Maureen

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

11.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

15.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

23.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Allen, Woody

25.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

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

29.

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

Chambless, David

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

31.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

32.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

33.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

35.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

38.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

50.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen