Motivational Quotes

Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

Best Quotes about Love

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Meredith, George

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Victor Hugo

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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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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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green