Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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 stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George