Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Seneca

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward