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

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

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

14.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

15.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

16.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

22.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

23.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

24.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

31.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

32.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

33.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

34.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

35.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

43.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

44.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

45.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

47.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

48.

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

49.

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

Calvino, Italo

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae