Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

- Hardenberg, Novalis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Paolo Giordano

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

18.

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.

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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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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

32.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

35.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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 the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

48.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo