Motivational Quotes

Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

34.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

39.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne