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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Ice T

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Youngman, Henny

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]