Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Kempis, Thomas

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Auerbach, Red

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

39.

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

Allen, Woody

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward