Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

38.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

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

Proverb

40.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

41.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

46.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome