Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Eliot, T. S.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

23.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

28.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

40.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Plato