Motivational Quotes

Love

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

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

Peguy, Charles

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

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.