Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

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

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Verse, A Haiku

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Youngman, Henny

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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

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Michael Patrick King

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.