Motivational Quotes

Love

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

- David Foster

Best Quotes about Love

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buber, Martin

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

12.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

13.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Julie Morgenstern

18.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

25.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

26.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

28.

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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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

32.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais