Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

11.

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

Bible

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

19.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

40.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

41.

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

Euripides

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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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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

46.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

47.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug