Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the cheapest of religions.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

10.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

11.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

12.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

13.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

19.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

23.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

24.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Dryden, John

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

35.

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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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 may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.