Motivational Quotes

Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Davies, Robertson

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

David Viscott

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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 is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Randy K. Milholland