Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

12.

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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

15.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Delp, Alexis

18.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

19.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

30.

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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Buber, Martin

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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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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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

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

43.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.