Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kempis, Thomas

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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

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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

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