Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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

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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus