Motivational Quotes

Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

10.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

18.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Delp, Alexis

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

Charles M. Schulz

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Victor Hugo

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

35.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.