Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

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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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

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Brown, David

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.