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

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

25.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

31.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

41.

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

Bible

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.