Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

34.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Aristotle

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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

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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.