Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the cheapest of religions.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

11.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

12.

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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

14.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

15.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

16.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

17.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

18.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

19.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

20.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

24.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

27.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

44.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne