Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

14.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Mother Teresa

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

24.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

25.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

28.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

33.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

34.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

38.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

45.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques