Motivational Quotes

Love

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Love

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

Capote, Truman

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

J. K. Rowling

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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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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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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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Dane, Frank

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Brookner, Anita

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril