Motivational Quotes

Love

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

- Sara Zarr

Best Quotes about Love

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Confucius

16.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

17.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

18.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

25.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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

27.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

29.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

33.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

37.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

39.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Heinlein, Robert

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

44.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles