Motivational Quotes

Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Best Quotes about Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Horton, Doug

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Martineau, Harriet

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Laing, R. D.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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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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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James