Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Pythagoras

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Calvino, Italo

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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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

Carroll, Pat