Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

- Macarius of Egypt, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Carmichael, Amy

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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 is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lennon, John

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid