Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

John of the Cross, St.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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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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

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Paolo Giordano

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

29.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Wilkerson, David

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Ferry, Brian

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Hugo, Victor

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.