Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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.

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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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Wieder, Marcia

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