Motivational Quotes

Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nathan, George Jean

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

41.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

45.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba