Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.