Motivational Quotes

Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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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've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Hugo, Victor

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Buber, Martin

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack