Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Hazlitt, William

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Disney, Walt

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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

Chambless, David

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von