Motivational Quotes

Love

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

10.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

William Penn

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

22.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

37.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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

49.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas