Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

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

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

10.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

15.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

17.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

18.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

22.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

24.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Behn, Aphra

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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.

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales