Motivational Quotes

Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Crawford, Joan

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Victor Hugo

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Michael Patrick King

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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