Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

- Shadwell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Ovid

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

Bible

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

Rowland, Helen

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

J. K. Rowling

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bible

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

Fromm, Erich

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Dane, Frank

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Rowland, Helen

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David