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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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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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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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He who is not impatient is not in love.