Motivational Quotes

Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

21.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

38.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

39.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Sophocles

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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

47.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.