Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mcdonald, George

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

11.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

13.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

14.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

17.

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

18.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

20.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

26.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

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

29.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

33.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

46.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

47.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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