Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Duffy, Maureen

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Turner, Ted

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet