Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

John of the Cross, St.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

11.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

12.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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 beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

32.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Capote, Truman

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

38.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dane, Frank

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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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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox