Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

12.

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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Proust, Marcel

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Jean Anouilh

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green