Motivational Quotes

Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Laing, R. D.

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Augustine, St.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William