Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

12.

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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

49.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace