Motivational Quotes

Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Desai, Yogi

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

10.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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.

15.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Chanel, Coco

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

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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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

23.

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

24.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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

27.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

28.

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

Ferry, Brian

29.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Bette Davis

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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

33.

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

Leunig, Michael

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plato

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

40.

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

Fox, Emmet

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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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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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

45.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

46.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Marlowe, Christopher

48.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

49.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony