Motivational Quotes

Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

15.

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

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

20.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

22.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

28.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

39.

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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna