Motivational Quotes

Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

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

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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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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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Michael Patrick King

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Sophocles

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Jerome, St.

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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