Motivational Quotes

Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Croft, Roy

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Peguy, Charles

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davies, Robertson

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

37.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jean Anouilh

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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 is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.