Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Bertrand Russell

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Augustine, St.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green