Motivational Quotes

Love

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

'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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Swift, Jonathan

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Capote, Truman

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Michael Patrick King

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Buddha