Motivational Quotes

Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Love

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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