Motivational Quotes

Love

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

19.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

20.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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 else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

28.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Real Live Preacher

44.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan