Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hugo, Victor

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

William Shakespeare

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

22.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

24.

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

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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.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thurber, James

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jennifer Aniston

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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 is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

William Shakespeare

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

41.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.