Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

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

Paolo Giordano

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

10.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

12.

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

Duffy, Maureen

13.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

14.

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

15.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

16.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

17.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

19.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

22.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

27.

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

28.

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

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

34.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

35.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

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

40.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

46.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.