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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Anouilh, Jean

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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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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 built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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 best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia