Motivational Quotes

Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Capote, Truman

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

10.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

11.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

12.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

20.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

25.

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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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

35.

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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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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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

38.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

40.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

46.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

47.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

48.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.