Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Levine, Stephen

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Donne, John

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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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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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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De