Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

15.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

18.

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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

21.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

23.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

30.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

32.

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

Sarton, May

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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

34.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

35.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

42.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

45.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

48.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

49.

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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara