Motivational Quotes

Love

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Orwell, George

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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 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

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

40.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Bourget, Paul

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.