Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Strindberg, J. August

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

21.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Brown, David

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel