Motivational Quotes

Love

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Byron, Lord

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

11.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Buber, Martin

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

Michael Patrick King

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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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

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Pythagoras

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates