Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Richardson, Nick

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Plato

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Southey, Robert

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Real Live Preacher

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil