Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than justice.

- Sting

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

John of the Cross, St.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Calvino, Italo

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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 is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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 sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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.

Lois McMaster Bujold