Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Fromm, Erich

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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 from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De