Motivational Quotes

Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

- Leach, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Burton, Robert

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

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

Carmichael, Amy

11.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

16.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

21.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

26.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

28.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

29.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

30.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

31.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Harrigan, John

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

Law, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.