Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

11.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

12.

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

13.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

14.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

17.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

18.

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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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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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

21.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

22.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

23.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

27.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

32.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

35.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

36.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

37.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

42.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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