Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

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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

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Byron, Lord

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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 is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.