Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

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.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

12.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

13.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Mcdonald, George

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

32.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

42.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare