Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

11.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

12.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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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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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Burton, Robert

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.