Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

33.

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

Allen, Woody

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love without attachment is light.