Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than justice.

- Sting

Best Quotes about Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

10.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

11.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

12.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

14.

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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

16.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Desai, Yogi

49.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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