Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Meredith, George

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Desai, Yogi

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Donne, John

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

20.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

21.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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