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

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Brown, Les

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

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Toni Morrison

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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Jewish