Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Leunig, Michael

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

10.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

11.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

18.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

19.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

20.

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

Fox, Emmet

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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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ovid

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

28.

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

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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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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

39.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

48.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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