Motivational Quotes

Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

28.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

40.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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.

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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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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi